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Friday, January 11, 2008

Ryan Wood’s KU football notebook

By Ryan Wood

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Nothing major

It appears that next season's Kansas-South Florida game in Tampa, Fla., will not be moved to the opening week of the season for television.

ESPN had approached USF about the possibility of moving the game to Aug. 29, a Friday, for primetime television purposes. But USF athletic director Doug Woolard told the Tampa Tribune that "my latest conversation with ESPN is that the game will remain as scheduled."

That, for now, is Sept. 13.

Both Woolard and KU associate athletic director Larry Keating did mention the possibility of the game being moved to Friday night, Sept. 12, but no serious conversations have taken place.

For now, KU's 2008 nonconference schedule is: Florida International on Aug. 30, Louisiana Tech on Sept. 6, at South Florida on Sept. 13 and Sam Houston State on Sept. 20.

Mangino nabs another

That makes eight.

KU coach Mark Mangino was named Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association on Wednesday, giving him eight national coach-of-the-year awards this season.

The others: Associated Press, Bear Bryant, Eddie Robinson, Home Depot (ESPN), The Sporting News, Walter Camp and Woody Hayes.

Assembly planned

Lawrence High will hold an assembly today to honor two of its own - KU seniors Brandon McAnderson and Brian Seymour.

The two, 2003 LHS grads, were contributors on the 12-1 Kansas team which won the Orange Bowl last week. McAnderson rushed for 1,125 yards and 16 touchdowns as the primary ball-carrier this season, while Seymour had five tackles on special teams.

2008 rankings

A couple of national publications have released a preseason Top 25 ranking for 2008.

ESPN's Mark Schlabach puts Kansas at No. 15, behind four Big 12 Conference teams: Oklahoma (No. 2), Missouri (4), Texas (7) and Texas Tech (12).

Rivals.com, meanwhile, put Kansas at No. 11, saying "The Jayhawks could be even stronger than they were this season" but also noting an increase in schedule strength.

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Comments

Cornfed (anonymous) says...

Texas at 7?????? See you in Lawrence Mack Brown and company.....;)

January 11, 2008 at 3:47 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

mvjayhawk (anonymous) says...

that's the game i can't wait for, next year.....Texas. Charles Gordon, we will avenge you! can we play that game tomorrow?

January 11, 2008 at 7:17 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

jayhawkinatl (anonymous) says...

UT is soooooo overrated!!!!

January 11, 2008 at 7:22 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

patton6 (anonymous) says...

I'd say they're overrated too, but you can't sell short how much trading out DC Duane Akina for ex-Auburn DC Will Muschamp will help them. With their athletes, getting a guy who not only knows what he's doing, but is good at it will change some things...

January 11, 2008 at 7:42 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

txrockchalk (anonymous) says...

There won't be any 4th & 18 magic from Colt McCoy this time. And, I doubt we will be a 22-point underdog. My how things have changed in a few years!

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?g...

January 11, 2008 at 7:55 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

troutsee (anonymous) says...

Agree TU and their coach are both overrated. We will beat them next year. I can hardly wait to burn the burnt Orange.

January 11, 2008 at 8:46 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

fabio (anonymous) says...

Everyone says TU. Its UT

January 11, 2008 at 10:21 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

Jimmy_Dean (Alan Halvorsen) says...

Texas, you aren't playing K-State this week!

January 11, 2008 at 12:04 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

sevenyearhawk (anonymous) says...

fabio ...

TU is what the Aggies called them, don't you remember at Midnight Yell Practice?

"So long to Texas University, good-bye to the Orange and the White ..."

It really makes 'em mad!

Hopefully we'll "saw Varsity's horns off" ourselves next year!

Beak 'em! :D

January 11, 2008 at 12:21 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

txrockchalk (anonymous) says...

fabio, J_D, and sevenyear - -

Great seeing you guys in Miami!! I am going to have to head back there when it is warmer and less expensive :)

By the way, instead of TU, it should be tu. Don't give them the satisfaction of capitalization.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk Football in '08

January 11, 2008 at 1:05 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

LTCUSARet (anonymous) says...

Actually, Fabio, it's not UT or TU -- it's tu.

Just ask anyone in College Station, home of the first public institution of higher education in Texas, Texas A&M University (established 1876, a full 7 years before tu opened its doors).

Gig 'em, Ags! and Rock Chalk Jayhawks!

January 11, 2008 at 4:24 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

Jimmy_Dean (Alan Halvorsen) says...

A lot of love for the Aggies on here, rightfully so. Their fans are awesome...at least they were to us when we went down there.

Too bad their football program is being run into the dumps. NFL coach's do not do well in college, and vice versa (except Callahan at Nebraska). I know Sherman was an offensive line coach at A&M under Slocum, but he's still an NFL coach.

January 11, 2008 at 4:49 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

actorman (anonymous) says...

You don't need to make an exception, Jimmy Dean. Given how Callahan did with the Raiders, he doesn't qualify as an NFL coach. (Then again, given how he did with NU, he doesn't qualify as a college coach either.)

January 11, 2008 at 5:43 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

tdub (anonymous) says...

How about TT at #12??? What???

January 11, 2008 at 6:06 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

Pbbut (anonymous) says...

With what's coming back, and the difficulty in preparing for them, I actually consider TxTech a greater threat to OU than Texas. I would not be surprised to see them seriously challenging OU for the Big 12 South.

January 11, 2008 at 8:34 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

sevenyearhawk (anonymous) says...

Speaking of Tech ...

someone needs to suggest that they adopt Freddy Krueger as a mascot for their football team!

They just will not go away: last year against Minnesota, this year against the Virginia "Hoos" !!

I could see Leach in the glove and fedora! ;)

January 11, 2008 at 11:16 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

flipborder02 (anonymous) says...

Wow there are alot of stupid people out there. God why cant anyone relize how overrated Texas is Jesus.

January 12, 2008 at 6:28 p.m. ( | suggest removal )